Drinking helps. Anesthetize yourself for 8 or 10 hours then spend the last hours eating
--FT Sent from iPhone > On Sep 25, 2020, at 8:13 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Yup. My Singapore route connected through Narita. > > Singapore to NAR - 7:00 > > NAR to ORD (O’ Hare) - 12:00 > > That’s a brutal, brutal day. > > When I would fly to Seoul I often flew from Detroit direct on Northwest. > That’s over 14 hours in the air non-stop. Even in business class that was > unpleasant. I can’t even begin to imagine what it’s like in coach. > > -D > >> On Sep 25, 2020, at 8:07 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> Flying home from Tokyo direct to Boston the flight leaves at like 4:10pm and >> arrives (13 hours later) at like 4:05pm the same day... >> >> -Curt >> >> On Friday, September 25, 2020, 4:52:01 PM EDT, Dan Penoff via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> >> I traveled to Asia a number of times each year. It was a total mind f*ck >> whenever I went because of the “loss” of a day going over. Worse than that, >> trying to interact with people back in the States was even worse, like “OK, >> it’s 12 noon here so it’s midnight last night at home.” That leaves a fairly >> small window of time to call home and not be disruptive, like at breakfast >> (yesterday’s dinner time) or dinner (same day’s breakfast time). >> >> However, coming back was even worse. If I came back from say Singapore, I >> would leave at 8:00 am local time and arrive back in Chicago 19 hours later >> at 2:00 PM the same day in the afternoon. >> >> Talk about messing up your mind. It certainly did. >> >> -D >> >>>> On Sep 25, 2020, at 4:38 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes >>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: >>> >>> I went to Tokyo once and it was weird being a whole nuther day, it was the >>> first day of spring when I was there so I don't know what time distortion >>> it was, but it was 14hr ahead in Tokyo from Boston >>> >>> --FT >>> >>> On 9/25/20 4:29 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: >>>> I've got a class for students in Japan next week. I've already been >>>> running classes online so thats not the weird part.The weird part is >>>> figuring out when I'm supposed to teach the dang thing. They scheduled the >>>> class for 9am JST on the 29th which is 8pm here. Then in the instructor >>>> schedule has me teaching on the 29th. >>>> It finally occured to me that 9am JST on the 29th is 8pm here on the >>>> 28th... >>>> I didn't want to do this class because they'd already booked me for >>>> another class on the 29th, turns out they had already booked me for >>>> another class (earlier in the day) on the 28th too... >>>> Its a 4 day class, Monday through Thursday, if you thought "He probably >>>> isn't going to work on Friday" you'd be right! >>>> -Curt >>>> _______________________________________ >>>> http://www.okiebenz.com <http://www.okiebenz.com/> >>>> >>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>> <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> >>>> >>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>>> <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> >> >>>> >>> -- >>> --FT >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com <http://www.okiebenz.com/> >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com <http://www.okiebenz.com/> >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
